January 3, 2010 – 4:39 pm
This was the year I travelled around the world, starting off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the world’s biggest party, the Rio Carnaval! It’s funny how the second you get home you almost forget you ever spent over five months seeing some of the most beautiful parts of the planet. So to remind myself [...]
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Also tagged 2009, amazon, angkor wat, bloco, bolivia, cambodia, carnaval, China, death road, great wall, laos, machu picchu, rio, Travel, travelling, vang vieng
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Swine flu. H1N1 influenza. This little bugger nearly stopped me during my onward travel from Peru to Chile. The reason? I got off the bus and, being the only foreigner on the bus, was hounded by officials in circumstances not unlike those Britney must have to endure from the paparazzi! Without so much as a [...]
After a very rough bus ride from Corioco to Rurrenabaque, our first plan was to find somewhere that sold the amazon tour for the cheapest price possible. We settled with a company called Amazonico Travel, paying the equivalent of £60 for a few days in the pampas. Highlights include the boat ride to the lodge, [...]
April 18, 2009 – 10:51 am
This is allegedly one of THE must-see places of Argentina. Apparently the backpacker scene is intense, and there is shitloads to do. Well according to my experiences they’re wrong! Maybe I turned up in off-season, or perhaps it was the hostel I stayed in, but in all my time there all I managed to do [...]
So the next stop of my tour of Argentina is the city that NEVER sleeps, Buenos Aires. I took a Via Bariloche bus from Puerto Iguazu which the ticket seller informed me offered unlimited champagne and food… Well I wasn’t allowed any free alcohol but overall it was the best bus journey I’ve had. We [...]
